Friday, April 24, 2026

GET ME REWRITE: Medieval conditions lead to hunger strike at Trump's largest concentration camp in Michigan

 
Photo credit:  No Detention Centers in Michigan
Headline:  Michigan Advance, 4/23/2026

Jon King reports:
Immigrants detained at an ICE facility in northern Michigan continued a hunger strike Wednesday, with advocates saying detainees are protesting alleged medical neglect, unsafe conditions and prolonged legal delays. 
According to the advocacy group No Detention Centers in Michigan, detainees at the North Lake Processing Center, a privately operated immigration facility in Baldwin, the strike, which started Monday, involved hundreds of people. 
Among them is Ahmad Alnajdawi of Jordan, who in a message the group says was shared with them, stated that language barriers prevent many detainees from communicating with staff or immigration officials. 
“We have no answers to our questions, and everyone here has questions. I have a lot of people here who speak Arabic, and this is very hard for them,” Alnajdawi said. “They cannot talk to the case managers; they cannot talk to ICE officers; they cannot talk to anyone. The food here is pitiful. I want the people outside to know, they’re treating us like animals.”

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